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Job: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Francophone African Literature
Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University, Illinois
Northwestern University’s Department of French and Italian seeks a full-time tenure-line Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor of sub-Saharan Francophone African literatures and cultures. The country/region and period of specialization are open, but candidates should have a background in literary studies enhanced by interdisciplinary strengths in, for example, cinema and media studies; critical approaches to race; cultural studies; environmental humanities; gender and sexuality studies; performance studies; or world literature.
The department seeks a teacher-scholar with a Ph.D. degree in French and Francophone studies (or a closely related field) by the start of the appointment (September 1, 2025). Candidates must have an active research profile as well as experience with or knowledge of planning and executing courses of their own design in French and in English.
Application deadline: 1 November 2024.